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Kansas adjutant general Colonel A. B. Campbell writes to Kansas governor John Martin concerning striking railroad workers. The state militia had been called into service as a result of disruption of train service and alleged threats to public safety. Campbell explains that the "statements in the telegrams of the Mayor and Sheriff are not overdrawn. The sheriff was slapped in the face and spit upon. The mob undertook to drag Kimball from the engine and but for the timely arrival of the train of passengers and mail, there would have been a furious assault." Railroad strikers refused to allow freight trains to run following information received from Texas where several striking workers had not been rehired in that state, thus violating conditions of the strike. Federal and state law prohibited interruption of passenger and mail cars leaving freight cars vulnerable during the strike.
Creator: Campbell, A. B.
Date: March 31, 1886
Item Number: 211989
Call Number: Governor's Records, John Martin, Box 29, Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211989
Business and Industry - Labor - Employees
Business and Industry - Labor - Strikes
Business and Industry - Labor - Unions
Business and Industry - Railroad
Business and Industry - Railroad - Freight trains
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Martin, John Alexander
Date - 1880s - 1886
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Labor movement
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Martin, John Alexander
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Adjutant General
Military - Service - Militias
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889
Places - Cities and towns - Parsons
Places - Counties - Labette
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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